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Phil White announced the 2011 schedule for the Northeast Kingdom Open Water Swimming Association (NEKOWSA), all conducted in the state of Vermont. Online registration is now open which is important due to the maximum field limitations. The events include the following: • Son of a Swim, 2-, 4- and 6-mile swims in Lake Memphremagog, is […]
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Since May 2010, Marcos Díaz of the Dominican Republic has swum four different swims between five continents in an attempt to build global awareness and support for the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals, a pledge by world leaders to eradicate extreme poverty and its root causes by 2015. He ended his project with a fifth
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Living Large On Lake Powell Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Mexican American Unity Swim started today at 6 am. The 6-person team is luxuriously escorted by a beautiful houseboat. Set in Lake Powell near the Grand Canyon, the swimmers are off to an excellent start in the 75°F (24°C) water. International Marathon Swimming
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Tomorrow’s Little Red Lighthouse Swim will be the largest 10K swim in the world as it just hit its maximum participant number of 250 athletes – yet another indication of the growing increase of the longer distance races. The increasingly popular 10K swim goes down the Hudson River, organized by the NYC Swim group, passes
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A proven marathon swimmer completing the Manhattan Island Marathon Swim back in 1988, Pete Tarnapoll came back into the swim of things on behalf of his wife Kim who is in the fight of her life against multiple myeloma. Since beginning his workouts with a modest 500 meters straight this April, Pete built up to
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The Real Federación Española de Natación (Royal Spanish Swimming Federation) presented Interational Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame inductee Montserrat Treserras Deo with its first Mujer y Agua Award. The ‘Women & Water’ Award was given to Montserrat for being such a pioneer in the sport of open water swimming in Spain where her career has
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The Ventura Deep Six Relay, a team of six tough California masters swimmers, set a new world record for a non-stop six-person relay (202 miles or 325 km in 101 hours 39 minutes) this week in the Pacific. Not only did the 6 California men topple the distance set by two separate relays from Lake
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The official distance of a marathon swim or channel crossing is based on the concept of the straight-line tangent distance.
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The Catalina Channel Swimming Federation provided a timely explanation for the colder waters that open water swimmers have been experiencing this season in the Pacific Ocean. The Federation explained the scientific reasons for the colder waters: a Pacific Decadal Oscillation that is currently in a long-term cooling phase. The Oscillation is a naturally occuring fluctuation
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Open water swimmers know the beauty of swimming at sunrise and at sunset when the colors of the sky turn magical and majestic. For a select few who get in the water at night for various reasons: adventure, training for a channel swim or for an actual channel swim, are often enthralled by the beauty